So, what with the holiday coming up, I'll be taking an extended weekend from blogging. So as to wrap things up, my fantasy teams went 1-1 again (stupid Matt Schaub beat me on Monday night by like .8 points), here's a funny webcomic... ...and here's my...

Remember when you were a kid and you had to have a favorite color and number and all that stuff? Is it just me, or did people not bother having a favorite letter? That seems a bit unfair, on reflection,* so allow me to make amends: my favorite letter...

Sharon Begley has apparently never watched Darren Aronofsky's fantastic "Pi," or else it wouldn't have been news "that when you are trying to solve a problem—and by "problem" I mean anything from a new ad campaign to an effective compromise in a...

Okay, granted: death is hardware failure. But this story raises questions that rarely see the light of day. Usually, near-future speculation about human/computer intimacy fixates on sex - VR sex, sex robots, the possibility (or not) of consent in...

Work in philosophy long enough and you'll encounter the "either trivially true or absurd" objection. A response that usually comes up in the context of fortune-cookie-esque nuggets of wisdom, the idea behind leveling this objection is to tease apart...